Taiwan Film Festival 2008
/I just saw a poster for the Taiwan Film Festival. Fortunately or unfortunately it is spread across 4 states so I'm only going to get to see about three films.
Happily one of the films is called "The Gangster's God," about a Lantern Festival ritual in which a gangster is voluntarily pelted with firecrackers and bottle rockets. The gangster is a righteous man-of-prowess, a leading member of a cult to a martial deity . I wrote about it as part of my two part review of the book, Steps of Perfection, by Donald Sutton (part one), (part two).
Happily one of the films is called "The Gangster's God," about a Lantern Festival ritual in which a gangster is voluntarily pelted with firecrackers and bottle rockets. The gangster is a righteous man-of-prowess, a leading member of a cult to a martial deity . I wrote about it as part of my two part review of the book, Steps of Perfection, by Donald Sutton (part one), (part two).
